Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his candor and his passion with which he rises and debates it. I do want to point out, though, that what we are talking about here are apples and oranges. When you start to look at contractors and the benefits of those contracts, those are really issues that we must address, and I'm willing to work with him on a bipartisan basis, but let's not take our eye off the ball. Why would we allow Sarah Hall Ingram, who is going to be administering over the Affordable Care Act, a bonus of $35,000? Why would we award a bonus of almost $31,000 to a gentleman that played Mr. Spock? It's indefensible to me. I can't imagine why my colleague opposite would want to defend that and why he wouldn't want to have tools to let managers manage the process. {time} 1515 I'm going to close with this point: Daniel Pink writes in a book called ``Drive'' that really it's about motivational theory; it's about the fact that bonus impact is minimal. I think we see that even here because of the surprising truth about what motivates us. It says: The carrot and the stick approach to motivating employees through bonuses and benefits is statistically ineffective. What they would rather have is a mastery of their position, they would rather have autonomy, they would rather have a sense of purpose that the job that they are doing is very meaningful.…”